This Scroll article quotes an IDFC Institute 2015 article to discuss the effect of holding simultaneous elections at the Legislative Assembly and the Parliamentary level on election outcomes. The article states:
"A 2015 study by the IDFC Institute found “a 77% chance t...
This NewsNation article features former Resident Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty's research on electoral data. Excerpts:
"Another reason is that during elections communalism, casteism, corruption and crony capitalism are at their peak. Frequent elections mean there is no respite...
This Mint article features our Briefing Paper on Political Diversity and Competition in India. Excerpts:
"Pre-poll alliances are widely expected to play a critical role in upcoming state elections and next year’s general elections. These alliances, a reflection of India’s...
Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, cautions against the growing calls for simultaneous Centre and State elections in India. He says:
"The idea of simultaneous elections for India is based on false premises, [...] Is ₹8,000 crore every five years or ₹1,500 crore e...
David Keohane, in this Financial Times article, reviews Milan Vaishnav's latest book titled, "When Crime Pays, Money and Muscle in Indian Politics" and explains the vertical integration in India's crime-political nexus. Excerpts below:
"As Vaishnav describes it, there was a reliable p...
Rajya Sabha member, Rajeev Gowda, has an interesting rebuttal to S. Gurumurthy's explanation on GDP growth during the 2004-09 period. He writes:
"In essence, the story that black money induced rising asset prices which led to high GDP growth with no jobs is a phantom one, devoid of any...
Luis Miranda in his Forbes blogpost talks about all that made economic reforms possible in India in 1991.
He writes ".....Most Indians today do not remember what life was like under a socialistic regime – half the country was not even born by then! Some of them are disillusione...
